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Join our efforts to save the Orca trapped in the ice just outside Inukjuak.
Inukjuak is an Inuit community with a population of approximately 1,800 people, comprised of mostly Inuit, and some non-Inuit.
The community of Inukjuak was made aware of the Orcas and their grave predicament. The municipality was called by a group of hunters who happened to run into the Orca while on a seal hunting trip on the pack ice.
According to the hunter (names will be withheld due to the high volume of calls being received from the world, also those people who found the whales will be at the site taking part in the aid effort) who first sighted them, at that first sighting he thought he saw odd looking raven taking flight from the ice, but it wasn't so, because he started see black masts coming out and disappearing back into the ice.
That is when he realized that they were in fact killer whales (Aarluks/Napajuliit)stuck in a small pond of open ice that they have been using for air.
Once the community was made aware of the whales, the mobile portion of the population went to see the whales, and started personally documenting their experience, and proof of such trapped Killer whales. Thus the video clips now available online.
The community had it`s meeting on the 9th of January at the municipal council. Concerned citizens, and members of local organizations met, and planned their aid efforts for the orca.
The Plan:
January 10th, 2013.
First at 8:00 A.M.EST, a scouting team of two will head to the site to see if the breathing hole is still being used by the whales.
Once there is confirmation from the scouts (who will also head the remote operations centre at the site) the community volunteers who were selected to rescue operations at 9:00 A.M. EST will gather all their supplies and head to meet the scouts/team leaders.
Photo: Inuit raising their hands, volunteering.
Volunteers were going over their pre-trip plan, and were briefed of the danger both whale and human will face in this rescue effort. This will be reiterated.
The temperatures have been going down to -30 degrees Celsius (-24 degrees Farenheit) without windchill. If any media group is coming up, please dress extremely warm, and make sure that your equipment can survive the cold.
The command centre will be open at 8:00 A.M. and will be at Municipal Office.
All access to the site will have to be pre-approved by the Command Centre, and once at the remote site, the site leaders will be in-charge of the site. The general public was asked not to come to the site due to their personal safety at risk to the elements, and so that they do not hinder or obstruct the rescue effort.
There are photos of the meeting but are of poor quality because I forgot to clean the lens due to the gravity of the situation, and the intensity of the meeting.
Updates are to come.
JK
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